ECENTLY, WordPress.com retired its ‘feed stats’ page. They claimed it was terribly inaccurate anyway, but it’s sad loss to a new blog, I have to say. I didn’t think I’d be so drawn into the whole stats thing, given that my commitment to the blog was really not based on whether people read it or not, but strangely, watching the line go up and down is a little exciting (and thanks to my linkers for their generous sharing of blog traffic, which caused the ups!). And it became involving. When it dropped low, at least I could comfort myself that the feed stats balanced it out a little. So I’ve burned my feed (seriously, da ‘tubes are responsible for some bizarre new language uses) with feedburner. If you feel like letting your reading me be a tiny ego-stroke, use the RSS in the right-hand column. If you feel you don’t know me nearly well enough to do any stroking of anything, feel free to use the link in your browser bar (that remains the wordpress one.)
June 18, 2007
wordpress.whinge
Posted by WildlyParenthetical under metablog, spending quality time with navel[6] Comments
Wildly Parenthetical 
June 19, 2007 at 1:32 am
I hear you. I wish I could lock stats and never look at them. But I like to know whether anybody is reading at all.
And then but so it’s a slippery slope!
June 19, 2007 at 8:53 pm
When one’s stats drop to a low point, the only way is up. That’s how I look at it, anyway.
June 19, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Well, there’s two readers at least! 😉 And FoucaultIsDead, isn’t that kinda like saying that an empty glass is half-full? Or just waiting to be filled? I think that’s a step beyond optimism… or maybe it’s optimised optimism? (Teehee. I’m weary, and easily amused.)
Interestingly, I got my first spam today. (Look, I’m growing up into a real actual blogger! Now I should join the chorus praising the virtues of Akismet, doubtless.) Should I blame feedburner, do you think? [narrows eyes suspiciously at stat seduction site]
June 20, 2007 at 12:20 pm
statcounter.com does good stats, for free, and you don’t have to have any gross logos. it doesn’t do feed stats, though, only page views and visitor tracking.
i like your blog, by the way! wish i had more time to comment, but i’ll just lurk for now.
June 20, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Thanks Az—it’s kind of strange to suddenly discover someone in your del.icio.us network’s got a blog that’s all criss-crossy with your interests. And yay for that, because your blog is great and I’m glad I found it. Ditto on the wanting more time for commenting; I am thinking about scribbling down some thoughts about the shift in language from intersex to DSD (I have some issues with it, though I’ve read Emi Koyama’s piece before and it is reasonably aware, I think). I think the strangest bit of all was discovering you’d been at Somatechnics too, hanging out with people I at least vaguely know…! Des tubes are a strange place!
June 21, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Yeah, it is strange! The strangely familiar, all the time. I’d be really interested to hear your thoughts on intersex/DSD; there are all kinds of quite intense splits going on within ‘intersex politics’ at the moment, and I don’t think I have the knowledge to navigate them reliably at all.
And yeah, I sort of crashed Somatechnics and spent more time socialising than at panels. But I’m sure we were nearly introduced at least twice!